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Mishika Mehrotra

Mishika Mehrotra awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Mishika Mehrotra has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The 重口味SM Mississauga alumna is one of 74 scholars from 30 countries to receive the prestigious scholarship this year.

Mehrotra, who graduated in 2019, will pursue a PhD in psychology at the University of Cambridge.

鈥淚 will study how parent鈥揷hild conversations relate to young children鈥檚 self-regulation, which is an important predictor of their school success, social competence and health,鈥 Mehrotra says. 鈥淎s part of the Gates Cambridge community, I hope that my research can inform low-cost interventions that equip caregivers with the tools to promote children鈥檚 self-regulation.

鈥淚 also want to focus on knowledge translation to make research findings more accessible to caregivers, and encourage them to promote children鈥檚 wellbeing through evidence-based approaches.鈥

While at U of T Mississauga, Mehrotra worked as a research assistant at . 

鈥淚 examined why some children feel guilty after violating social norms but others feel happy. The findings of my final-year thesis prompted me think about the role that caregivers can play in promoting children鈥檚 development.鈥

The top graduating student in science at U of T Mississauga in 2019, Mehrotra says she is grateful to Malti and Professor Emeritus Glenn Schellenberg for their supervision and guidance and Sebastian Dys for his mentorship. 

 

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